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Dinosaurs in the sea
Examines dinosaurs that lived in the sea during the Devonian, Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods.
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Mesozoic Sea Dragons
1. The site of Monte San Giorgio is the most famous marine life fossil bed in the world.
2. The story of the marine life from the Middle Triassic Period at Monte San Giorgio has never been told in book form before.
3. Olivier Rieppel is a curator at the Field Museum in Chicago and is a returning IUP author whose previous book, Turtles as Hopeful Monsters, had strong sales.
Told in rich detail and with gorgeous color recreations, this is the story of marine life in the age before the dinosaurs. During the Middle Triassic Period (247-237 million years ago), the mountain of Monte San Giorgio in Switzerland was a tropical lagoon. Today, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site because it boasts an astonishing fossil record of marine life from that time. Attracted to an incredibly diverse and well-preserved set of fossils, Swiss and Italian paleontologists have been excavating the mountain since 1850.
Synthesizing and interpreting over a century of discoveries through a critical twenty-first century lens, paleontologist Olivier Rieppel tells for the first time the complete story of the fish and marine reptiles who made that long-ago lagoon their home. Through careful analysis and vividly rendered recreations, he offers memorable glimpses of not only what Thalattosaurs, Protorosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Pachypleurosaurs, and other marine life looked like but how they moved and lived in the lagoon.
An invaluable resource for specialists and accessible to all, this book is essential to all who are fascinated with ancient marine life.
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Sea monsters : a nonfiction companion to Magic Tree House #39 : Dark day in the deep sea
Jack and Annie explore the oceans and their creatures.
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Uncover the top 10 facts behind the prehistoric megalodon shark
A video on the top 10 facts behind the megalodon, fossil shark.
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Meet the megalodon (carcharocles megalodon), a huge, prehistoric shark that dwarfed the great white
A video on the megalodon, a fossil shark and the largest known predator.
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Visions of a vanished world : the extraordinary fossils of the Hunsrèuck Slate
\"About four hundred million years ago earthquake activity and possibly major storms caused sudden movements of large quantities of muddy sediment along the seafloor. Animal communities in the path of these sediment-laden flows were instantly engulfed, the inhabitants 'frozen' in the last moment of their lives. Amazingly, many of the creatures lost in this ancient catastrophe were almost perfectly preserved through the eons, fossilized in a thick series of muds now known as the Hunsrèuck Slate, west of the Rhine Valley in western Germany. Excavations there have yielded the most diverse and surpassingly beautiful collection of marine fossils of the Devonian period ever discovered. This book pays tribute to the exquisite fossils of the Hunsrèuck Slate. Large full-color photographic plates display fossil sponges, brachiopods, clams, starfish, sea lilies, trilobites, worms, sea spiders, sea stars, crustaceans, corals, and many other species. An accessible commentary recounts the discovery of the fossils and explains how the slate was formed, how the animals are preserved, the significance of the fossils, and the controversies that surround them. A special presentation in every way, this book makes an exceptional contribution to the fascinating history of life on Earth\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Overview of the possible causes of the megalodon's extinction
Video on the Megalodon shark.
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INTERTIDAL AND SHALLOW SUBTIDAL BIOTA OF MAHIA PENINSULA, HAWKES BAY
Four hundred and seventy-two species of intertidal and shallow subtidal benthic biota are recorded from around Mahia Peninsula, East Coast, North Island, New Zealand. These comprise 11 chitons, 255 species of gastropod, 99 bivalves, 55 seaweeds, 20 crabs and shrimps, 11 echinoderms, eight barnacles, and various other groups. This list includes an extension of the recorded geographic range of 38 species of gastropod. Seven species of algae are listed at the extremes of their recorded range, four at their northern limit and three species at their southern limit. Mahia Peninsula is a rich enclave of coastal biodiversity because it extends out into the Pacific Ocean where it is less impacted by the muddy, turbid waters that characterise the Poverty Bay and Hawkes Bay coastline on either side. Mahia Peninsula lies near the northern limit of the coastal marine Cookian Province on New Zealand's east coast. While the dominant near-shore current is the north-flowing Wairarapa Current, Manias molluscs provide evidence for the leakage of some elements of the endemic warm-water Aupourian fauna around East Cape, facilitated by the more seaward, south-flowing East Cape Current with periodic eddies possibly carrying larval spawn landwards to settle. Manias molluscs also provide evidence that East Cape is a barrier to northwards dispersal, with little apparent chance for southern mollusc spawn to be carried westwards into the Bay of Plenty in a counter direction to the East Cape Current.
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